HOPEWELL TWP. — Collin Abrams, 21, who drowned in a friend's swimming pool in Hopewell Township yesterday, July 14, was a member of the Lambertville-New Hope rescue squad and an unofficial member of the Raritan Township Fire Department.

Raritan Fire Chief Risa Hynes said today, "We're just heartbroken." She said Abrams had been training and fighting fires with the Fire Department for years. His father, Michael, is the township fire marshal and an active firefighter.

Hynes said Collin "was a wonderful kid, very ambitious and extremely talented" as an EMT and firefighter. She said he was about to get into the Philadelphia Fire Academy and was involved with its pipe-and-drum band. Colin also was a member of the Upper Makefield (Pa.) Fire Company, she said.